Folkcraft® Machine Heads, Open Gear, Bone-Colored Button, Four Pack

Name: Folkcraft® Machine Heads, Open Gear, Bone-Colored Button, Four Pack
Brand: Folkcraft
SKU: 2300732
Price: 18.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Item Number 2300732

Regular price $18.00

If your dulcimer is in need of new "Tuning Machines" you have come to the right place! This four-pack of dulcimer tuning pegs with bone-colored buttons is just what you are looking for.

The diameter of each shaft is .236", so a 1/4" hole in your scroll head will be just the right size. On our bone-colored button tuning pegs, the gear ratio is 14:1. The shaft length is 1 and 1/32" (just over an inch), measured from the inside of the plate to the tip of the shaft.

There are two holes in the shaft. The first hole is approximately 1/2" from the inside of the plate. The second hole is approximately 7/8" from the inside of the plate.

Machine heads, Open gear, Bone-colored button,4 pack

The package of machine heads include the necessary tiny mounting screws as well as the decorative chrome colored grommets. The grommets measure at about 5/16 inch in diameter so I used a letter 'O' drill bit to make the mounting holes. Instead of pounding them into position I used a 'C' Clamp and pressed them into the holes. The pilot holes for the screws that hold the machine heads in place were drilled with a #50 drill making them easy to screw into place using a small Phillips head screwdriver - i was concerned about stripping the slot for the screwdriver if the pilot hole was too small. As I recall, the description for the set of four mentions that 2 right and 2 left machines are included and such was the case thus allowing all four to be turned in the same rotational direction to adjust string tension no matter which side of the peg head they are mounted on. Very nice and smooth to use. So far they hold the tension accurately from day to day.